Is it possible to generate a 3-d book cover with Photoshop AI?

[esterk42897401]

Is it possible to generate a 3-d book cover with Photoshop AI, and if so, how to do this?

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@esterk42897401 3D support in Photoshop ended with version 22.2. You can still download that version via the Creative Cloud desktop app. However, Photoshop was never meant to be a 3D creation tool - only meant to read 3D files. You are better off using sketchup or another 3D application to build your 3D model - or better yet check for free 3D models from sketchup warehouse or other sites.

[esterk42897401]

Ok, thanks Kevin

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What exactly are you planning to do with the book cover? 

[esterk42897401]

Thanks for your reply. I'm a webdesigner and often I make e-bookcovers for whitepapers and use mockups to render them into 3d. Now that I also design printed books I needed more mockups. The thing with mockups is that there's always something not to my liking or not accurate and mostly I can't find a way to alter it.  I can find my way in Photoshop but by no means I'm an expert. I could dive deep into it, but have so much other things to do, that I don't find the peace and quiet to keep creating my own 3d templates or do alterations to existing ones.  That's where my question comes from: is there a way to hand 2d front, back and spine to AI and ask for it to be rendered in 3d in different displays (books stacked, front or side view, opened etc.)?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

At current this is not an option in the AI Photoshop utilizes. 

As @Kevin Stohlmeyer mentioned you may be able to find a 3D model (or whole 3D scene) in which to insert the cover elements; alternatively there are template files for Photoshop in which a cover can be inserted in an appropriately transformed Smart Object with highlichts/shadows/… – but that probably matches roughly what you have been doing anyway.